BC or BCD?

[Ber Rabbit]

Ber...you're classes sounds like a blast! (or you get a lot of smartass students!)

Isn't scuba class supposed to be #1 safe and #2 fun There's more than a slight chance that an unannounced portion of the hokey pokey is part of the final pool exam I love the bewildered looks on their faces after we do mask clear/reg clear & recovery, etc then I get vertical and "put my right fin in". They get in position waiting to for the signal to stretch a simulated cramp when I go back to horizontal for "take my right fin out". They imitate the position wondering what the heck is going on when I go vertical again and "put my right fin in"; I wait until all have finished looking at their buddy's and giving the "what the heck?" sign and then I "shake it all about" once they are in position. Most of them figure out what we're doing at this point so everyone finished the song together

Back to the regularly scheduled discussion, sorry for the hijack!
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Spady]

BC is simpler

 

[Walter]

Did I say I knew this because I was already an active diver when the BC was invented???
I say this because in the OW class that I took, it was referred to as a BCD. And growing up at Buddy's Dive Shop in Islamorada and hearing most of the employees referring to them as BCD's also helped. It makes sense, I go with it. It was a poll, I responded and gave my opinion. Lighten up Walter, you with over 11,000 posts should understand this.

No, you didn't. I was merely pointing out you were stating an assumption as a fact. Opinions are one thing, facts are another. The fact that in the PADI OW class you took it was referred to as a BCD or that the PADI employees reffered to it as a BCD means that what it was called then and there by those folks, not that it was originally called a BCD.

You look like Buddy Brown, are you related? Did you grow up on the Free and Clear?

 

[GrandpaScuba]

Just curious which acronym people use more?

Both are correct.

 

[aquaticmatt]

The Free and Clear and the Scuba Safari. I find that being related to Buddy (father) can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on who you ask. I think it's a good thing though. Do you know him?

BTW, that's where I got the "BCD" from. We might need to correct him, seeing that I am deeply in the minority.

 

[Walter]

I do, but not very well. I worked for Riddick in Tavernier after he left Buddy's. They aren't "wrong," they're merely following the PADI line. Did Ray Byrd work for your dad in Cayman?

 

[AbyssalPlains]

Bp/w!!!

Dude - you don't seriously say "Well, and then I had to deflate my bee-pee forward slash doubleyou" - or do you really???

 

[aquaticmatt]

I do, but not very well. I worked for Riddick in Tavernier after he left Buddy's. They aren't "wrong," they're merely following the PADI line. Did Ray Byrd work for your dad in Cayman?

Ray Byrd doesn't ring a bell. I talked to Riddick the other day. He's doing well.

 

[Paco II]

Sure they are both 'correct,' but I was just curious which phrase people use more.

Both are correct.

 

[AbyssalPlains]

Ok, folks, this thread confirms what I have suspected for a while now - we need an SIR movement: "Say It right!"